well i'm sorta weird in the fact i listen to music and envision how it would go in a movie or pretend i'm in a movie(i know i know, i said it was weird) so from that aspect i really like the video. i enjoy the song to but the lyrics are a little muddy to me, i'm just not deep like that. but i do think the lead singer is a tool, so maybe some anger. really good video imo.( i'm into weird epic asian films)
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"...On his face is a Map of The WORLD...From Yesterday"
by sf infantastic video!
what's this one 'make' you feel?
what does it stir up in you?.
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Did you have a favorite food at the assemblies (when they sold it there)?
by kitten whiskers inhubby and i got on the topic last night.
he was wondering what i was eating- a frozen jello pudding cup.
i remember getting them at the assemblies, especially the hot summer district assemblies.
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never even heard of burritos and donuts at the assemblies! man what a jip. i do remember the the roast beef sandwiches though, i liked them. and remember all my family loving the pasta salad when they came out with those. i looked for those sara lee danishes everywhere after they quit having food and could never find them, even at the sara lee outlet.
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How long can you go to the meetings and not get baptized?
by JH inusually, adults who attend meetings regularly and aren't baptized yet are encouraged to do so.
usually after 1 or 2 years a person who attends meetings regularly will get baptized.. i wonder what would happen if a person would go to meetings for years and not want to get baptized.
would the elders finally brand them as evil or start shunning them somehow?.
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so far 23 years. but i do get nagged ALOT!and the shunning has been going on to, but that does really get to me cause most everyone there are jackholes. and all my real friends are "wordly" anyways so whooptee-doo!
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If there were no boundaries, where would you like to live?
by JH inno boundaries, but still differenet speaking languages, and different looking people and different customs, but no boundaries so you could find work anywhere and have the same privileges than you would have in your own country.. i'd definitely move where it's warmer.
that wouldn't be hard to find.... .
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hope town, abaco island bahamas. the best place in the world! look it up.
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Did you really want to have "Privileges"
by JH ini don't know about others here, but i couldn't care less about privileges.. i had a couple of privileges, but i really didn't want to get too deep in the org and get too many privileges.
i didn't want to get tied down with that, and have to leave 30 minutes later every meeting, or have to spend an extra hour or two preparing for something.. .
all that counted for me as a dub was "paradise" and "eternal life" .
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"privileges" to me just meant I had other things to do besides pay attention, so I didn't mind them.
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Bracing for 12-16 inches of snow in Indiana
by exwitless ina blizzard is heading our way tonight and tomorrow.
they've already cancelled schools ahead of time.
good thing i have a huge stash of home made hot chocolate mix!
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betteroffdead
i would welcome more snow, all we have is ice. the roads were slush then froze so the roads are a solid sheet of ice, yay! power has been out 3 times today because of the ice.
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sorry just fuming right now
by betteroffdead inhey everyone.
new to the forum but have been reading earnestly many great topics, major respect to everyone who posts.
anyways i'm an "active dub"(i use that term loosely never baptised and it pisses them off, haha) born and raised in it, i've had alot of the questions asked on here myself.
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thanks for the heads up. its hard to let that stuff go with my personality coupled with the fact she continually makes up lies to her family about us which in turn gets to us and makes me angry because everyone feels sorry for her because of her fantastic lies.
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sorry just fuming right now
by betteroffdead inhey everyone.
new to the forum but have been reading earnestly many great topics, major respect to everyone who posts.
anyways i'm an "active dub"(i use that term loosely never baptised and it pisses them off, haha) born and raised in it, i've had alot of the questions asked on here myself.
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my situation is that i was raised a witness my father was an elder he died when i was 12 of skin cancer so the cong. left me alone about things as he was by all accounts an outstanding elder and not by j-dub standards, but i might be a little bias there. anyways they took me off the school whathaveyou. Then at the age of fifteen I was diagnosed with leukemia and thank goodness i got through that, during that i didnt go to a meeting for 3 years for obvious medical reasons as regards my weak immune system and infections. in the first month or so all the witnesses were "concerned" or so I thought at the time. they visited me I was happy people cared needless to say that ending quickly. I was then involved with the hospital liason commitee about the no blood issues because leukemia is a cancer of the blood so standard practice is transfusion. And I remember really resenting the fact I was being coached up like i was going before the supreme court but I went no blood partly because of the wts but also a health issue for me personally not having to do with the wts. So three years went by clean bill of health nobody except family friends occasionally visiting me and I thought that was dispicable concidering what I was taught. So I eventually return to meetings which was a feet in its self with my social anxiety and distane for the cong. when they would act so happy I was there knowing full well it was fake. So I'm there a few years and besides a couple of friends nobody really gives me a second glance but all of a sudden start pressuring me to study and get baptised which oddly enough coincides with my 21st b-day hmm go figure. come to find out from a "friend" there were elders assigned to talk to me but never did let alone say hello. At that point I decided I dont really care to be a part of this. but I continue to go sporacticly because my girlfriend still believes but is hating the elders more and more each day. So I guess I don't really have a problem with doctrine, I'm not a bible scholar by any means. But rather my treatment as a member of the cong. and as a person. hope this answers something.
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sorry just fuming right now
by betteroffdead inhey everyone.
new to the forum but have been reading earnestly many great topics, major respect to everyone who posts.
anyways i'm an "active dub"(i use that term loosely never baptised and it pisses them off, haha) born and raised in it, i've had alot of the questions asked on here myself.
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first off thanks for the reply. the story is kinda lengthy but here it goes.
the reproved would be my girlfriends sister, she is very cinderella stepsisterish and has a jealous streak like no other maybe because shes thirty and hasnt had any relationships worth remembering. but i'll tell you 2 of those were with gay men (not thats anything wrong with that) and the last one is such a doozy i'll have to tell. her last guy she was cheating on his girlfriend to be with her but was a national guardsmen so he told her he was to be deployed in few months. so because she is so crazy(def. certifiable!) she decides to fake a pregnancy to get him to stay. Mind you she is still a baptized witness, so needless to say big nono. she goes and fakes documents and everything but then decides she doesnt really like him so she fakes a miscarriage. and he tells her hes being deployed and breaks up with her so as not to whatever?
well come to find out he didnt go to iraq but married a stripper. and somehow she found out and would stalk him randomly again to shorten this she gets back with him after practicly raping him at the bar, she moves in with him while still claiming to be a witness (all while hes still legally married to the stripper) then about that time the convention comes up (cough waste of time and money) and we rent a car to go (i'm not quite the perfect witness go figure i'm here). we go get indoctrinated blah blah, come back and asks her sister to take a half hour out of her sad life to return the car with her so she does and drops her back off at the house and goes to her loser BF's apt. to find him in the shower with another women besides her or his wife. she flips blah blah normal stuff, then proceeds to blame my girlfriend for the entire thing, that if she hadnt returned the car with her this would never had happened, and then starts a month long campaign of sh@$%ng on her about everything and blaming her for ruining her life.
thats an abreviated story that brings us to the present we now have an intense hatred for her sister for the way she has treated my girlfriend. so she is reproved at this point (because she lied to the elders about everything, how do I know because she was dumb enough to tell her sister every sordid detail of their twisted relationship) and moves for schooling this is up to last week. she is now campaigning her family to hate my girlfriend because she got in trouble.
by the way all but her mother are not witnesses. so shes still out doin what she does and posts all of her disfellowsipable offenses on the internet for all to see. so her sister writes the elders to tell them and attaches the photos her sister so wonderfully put out there.
skip a week to tonights meeting and the elders pull her aside and tell her that their not doing anything regarding this matter except call the sisters congregation which she doesnt even go to but the closest to where she lives to have those elders talk to her to see if she wants to go to meeting. i just find it very frustrating when the elders jump down my girlfriends throat for dating me because i'm not baptised but refuse to do anything regarding this situation.
sorry if this is confusing at all its been two years coming out at once. hope this helps maybe???
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sorry just fuming right now
by betteroffdead inhey everyone.
new to the forum but have been reading earnestly many great topics, major respect to everyone who posts.
anyways i'm an "active dub"(i use that term loosely never baptised and it pisses them off, haha) born and raised in it, i've had alot of the questions asked on here myself.
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hey everyone. new to the forum but have been reading earnestly many great topics, major respect to everyone who posts. anyways I'm an "active dub"(i use that term loosely never baptised and it pisses them off, haha) born and raised in it, I've had alot of the questions asked on here myself. not a hypothectical question but posed hypothetically(sorry for the randomness I'm angry). If you know a reproved person who has moved away and then are outright lying to the elders about there activities what are the elders "obligated to do"? Any answers would be appreciated. P.S.- I realize I'm being vindictive towards this person but the've ruined my wifes life, and anyways i'm of the motto god forgives i don't. not in everyday life just whens its personal... you know how that goes.